Provide access virtually anywhere

Patient centered care is driving an increasing amount of collaboration across clinical departments, caregivers and specialists. This growing need for collaboration is coupled with an increasingly mobile clinical workforce. Clinicians are eager to expand points of access to patient data so that they can follow patient progress, collaborate with colleagues, and review patient images and data outside hospital walls.

Mobile medical apps – software that can be downloaded onto phones, tablets and other off-the-shelf mobile devices -- hold promise to enhance patient care. However, they also can be a security risk or compromise patient privacy. To promote safe use, you need a clear policy that defines access, and medical apps that are built with secure patient data access in mind.

Our strategy for mobile healthcare focuses on three areas:

Fitting within your enterprise IT architecture

Understanding your clinical environment and workflow

Breaking down barriers to collaboration

Learn more about our innovative mobile medical apps that connect care to information that matters.

Sixty‐seven percent of hospitals interviewed report that staff nurses are using personal Smartphones to support clinical communications and workflow.¹

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Strategy for mobile healthcare

Access that makes sense

Enabling clinicians with access to patient data and images outside of your healthcare enterprise securely, and without disrupting your IT infrastructure, can be a difficult task. But there are a few things you can do to keep mobile access from becoming a headache and a money pit.

There are multiple levels of security required to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability for mobile devices. Authentication and authorization control access by users and roles, encryption of the identifiable data in transit, ensuring that no identifiable information can be stored on the mobile device are all available through the Philips mobile applications.

Look for apps built on common operating systems and protocols that are already in use as part of your mobility environment, like iOS, Android, and HTML 5.

Consider apps that employ cutting edge security and authentication mechanisms developed by leading Mobile Device Management (MDM) software vendors and app partners that understand BYOD as a strategy

Find apps that are based on deep knowledge of clinical workflow and allow your stakeholders to access data in ways that make sense for them

Mobile solutions for clinical needs

What mobile healthcare apps should your IT department support and encourage? Start by analyzing your clinical needs. What are the bottlenecks in your clinical workflow? Do clinicians often make a special trip to review data or images, when remote access would enable a fast response?

Does the difficulty of getting a care team together in the same room ever delay care decisions? Or, perhaps you’d like to make apps available to your patients or their caregivers, so they can take a more active role in their care whether they are in or out of the hospital.

Once you determine your priorities, look for medical apps that best meet your needs.

Virtual clinical collaboration and access

A shortage of physicians is a reality in many regions of our country. Even when the right specialists are available, in-person care team meetings might not be possible. Mobile medical apps address these challenges by creating an environment for virtual collaboration from mobile devices.

Share images and data – including retrospective waveform strips, radiology images or near real time vital signs - with colleagues virtually anywhere – down the street or around the globe. Quickly and efficiently access information to help with diagnostic challenges and aid decision-making about patient care options.

Our mobile apps put patient images and data at your fingertips. Such patient information can be accessed from your smartphone, from the application itself in the facility or office, or from your EHR given Philips strong approach to interoperability. It is Philips recommendation that Mobile Device Management software (MDM) be used to provide additional management and controls on the individual devices.

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